Recent events in Ukraine have increased scrutiny and highlighted influences upon President Putin in an autocratic regime, following on from the Czars with Orthodoxy, Nationalism and Rasputin, the Soviets could always claim Marx, Engels, Lenin, The Party et al., but for present day Russia, and Putin, Alexander Dugin is cited as a key influencer (who is manipulating whom?).

Further is there evidence of any relationship with the key influencers round Brexit UK or Trump's America or Europe?

According to Dunlop (2004) via Stanford's The Europe Center in 'Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics', claimed that Dugin, a 'a neo-fascist ideologue' with other intellectuals is 'interested in mysticism, paganism, and fascism', 'conservative revolution', National Bolshevik Party, his theories partly adopted by the military, Russia as Eurasian, and backed up with some hierarchical views: '"Russians should realize that they are Orthodox in the first place; [ethnic] Russians in the second place; and only in the third place, people". 

Further Dugin on America, echoes of Capitol Hill: '"It is especially important," Dugin adds, "to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements-- extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

Martin Lee's excellent (1997) 'The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups & Right-wing Extremists' was prescient in highlighting movement of far right ideology post WWII including former Soviet Union, cited Dugin and also that a Putin like figure would emerge to take advantage of new expanded Presidential powers (plus e.g. funding far right in both Europe and US).

The Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin highlighted by Teitelbaum in New Statesman (8 Oct '20) 'The rise of the traditionalists: how a mystical doctrine is reshaping the right Steve Bannon, Russia's Alexander Dugin and Brazil's Olavo de Carvalho are united by their affinity with a spiritual movement that fundamentally rejects modernity…

…Repudiating the Enlightenment, traditionalists instead celebrate what they regard as timeless values. They honour precedence rather than progress, emphasise the spiritual over the material, and advocate surrender to the fundamental disparities – as opposed to equality – between humans and human destinies'

In addition to Putin's 'project', related is the UK oligarchs and (not limited to) Tory scandals, the US fossil fueled nativist libertarian 'project' which is being challenged; especially with the benefit of hindsight and scrutiny of Brexit and Trump.

Central in these nativist and/or conservative libertarian 'projects' were European and Anglo seers, with the former including far right politicians in Europe, funded by Putin including Le Pen or strongly influenced e.g. Hungary's PM Orban.

However, in the Anglosphere of UK, US and Australia, eccentric figures have been promoted by the right also, often in the late John Tanton's nativist Tanton Network, who had been an ideological muse of Steve Bannon, while in the UK central round Brexit and subsequent PM Johnson, was Dominic Cummings. 

While Bannon can be easily linked to the influence of Dugin in his ramblings masquerading as analysis and philosophy as New Statesman has done, Cummings can too,  This is reflected in his Russian connections, his writings and Brexit campaign; Gordon of the North East Bylines UK has stated as much in (3 August 2020)  'Cummings, Brexit and Russia: Part 1' highlighting Cumming's attitude towards immigration and the EU, in attempts by Cummings to justify his antipathy.

Finally China and Russia, and although there is an agreement for cooperation on the old 'Silk Road' or the Belt & Road Initiative with China, one assumes the Chinese security services and academia have studied Dugun closely; if not they should, why?

Not only did he state that Ukraine needed to be part of Russia, and assumed unity in the Orthdox Church in regional states (absolutely untrue as '2021 schism between Greek and Russian Churches showed) he stated:

'China, which represents a danger to Russia, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled". Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Inner Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.  Russia should offer China help "in a southern direction – Indochina (except Vietnam), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia" as geopolitical compensation.' (Johnson, 2004).

What do President Xi and The Party think of that?

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